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Cyberdemon531 is known for being a Speedrunner, mainly Mega Man X6 and Doom, but she is somewhat of a pariah in the community. Banned from Twitch, for ranting on black voters in the Democratic primary and presidential elections,courtesy of this subreddit,
banned from AGDQ
for wearing a MAGA hat on stream during the first run of the event, banned from Twitter
for arguing with a British manchild, banned from discord for targeted harassment, banned from beam.pro within two hours, for calling ANTIFA "a bunch of faggots", and now she streams on about the only site that will have her; stream.me.

I'm writing this post, as alcohol has lately started affecting her streams, and not in a good way. Missed streams, careless gameplay, rants on her viewers, leaving the stream mid-game to purchase mixer for her scented vodka, it's not been a pretty 2 months since she turned 21. Even though she's already despised on the speedrunning section of Reddit, hopefully this exposure could be a wakeup call. Nowhere was this more apparent than in her 20+ hour 'Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories' "speedrun" from this past weekend. I'll try to detail the lowlights in this post:

Her first mistake was choosing to try and complete a run that is essentially 15+ hours of dice rolls. You forbid yourself from using some of the best Yu-Gi-Oh! cards in the name (namely Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon), thus need to grind battles in order to try and win lesser-powered cards. If you're lucky, you could complete the run in under 10 hours, if you're not, you'll be there forever. The
run starts after half an hour of resetting
for a decent enough starting deck, and Cyber presses on despite not being entirely satisfied (which would be the beginning of the end). Things start to go downhill when Cyber decides to liven up the run, by choosing to drink, at 2pm no less. However, she doesn't have any mixer in her house, so has to run to the local 7/11 mid-run, leaving the timer running....

Around 17 hours into the run, Cyber
"has an idea". Naturally, the chat thought this would be a clever workaround, letting her finally complete the game. Sadly, the actual plan was for her to plug in her Japanese PS2, swap audio cables around, and blare music from the Japanese version of the game at speaker-destroying levels, whilst bobbing her head like a dozy child. The chat was not impressed, leading to one valued member
putting her in her place with a well-timed chat troll. Nobody could have expected what came next, a full-on meltdown. Cyber destroyed the thing most precious to that chatter, a toy Minecraft wolf.
Using a hammer, her nails, scissors, her mouth and her desk
Cyber pummeled the poor hound, leaving it a decapitated (nail-varnish) bloody mess. It was also spat on, as seems par for the course for Cyberdemon.

By this point in the night (or morning, as the case was), Cyber's groggy state led to her being exposed in her own right. While fumbling for an analogy about why she wasn't winning the game, she
decided to begin flipping coins. Sadly for her, her technique is objectively wrong, flipping the coin with her index finger as opposed to her thumb, like every other person in the world. In typical Cyberdemon fashion, she doubles down, and insists every member of chat is in the wrong,
berating them for close to half an hour. Never one to back down, Cyber proceeds to
literally masturbate on stream
in order to somehow prove a point.

Let this stand as a lesson to Cyberdemon531, and any other streamers that start to take their audience for granted. You can't be "epic" all of the time, it will eventually come back to bite you in the ass. Either through losing your audience's trust, their support, or even being humiliated in a public forum.

I'm legitimately curious about the psychology or whatever behind this. I'm perfectly accepting of actual trans people, but for some reason, all the speedrunner "trans" people seem like they, I dunno, half assed it or something. It's weird.

i know what u mean though, maybe they cant afford all the hormone treatments with their streamer income

or maybe thats what all girls would look like if they never went outside, ate shitty food and abused their bodies all day. Not to mention the probably lack of hygiene and knowledge of how to maintain their new "feminine" forms

What I find the most odd is how being trans is their life. They could spend 50 hours a week speedrunning and they'd still go "My name is x, I'm trans, and-" before mentioning something eating up their whole day.

I mean look at any generic tranny thread on 4chan. Brazilian ladyboy escorts with botched boob jobs and illegal hormones. Still 50 times as convincing and probably doesn't get their thong in a twist over internet drama.

I think trans people are, basically by definition, more preoccupied with the expression of masculine/feminine gender norms than the average person, so of course it would take a more prominent place in their identity.

But I also think you're exaggerating it. How many people at GDQ mentioned being trans outside of discussion of chat trolling them for being trans? I don't recall a single instance of your example. People confuse visibly being trans for vocally exclaiming being trans as if someone with masculine features putting on a dress and makeup did it specifically to rile them up.

Instinct tells me that it's a fluke, and to have any connection just doesn't make sense. But it's clear that there is a dramatically higher amount of trans individuals in speedrunning compared to any other event.

The only guess I would have as to why this developed is the simplistic effect of exposure. I don't really feel like spending days trying to rewind through at least a dozen GDQ's, but I recall a few years ago a speedrun where the runner proclaimed his girlfriends transition (much to the woman's very apparent embarrassment of being announced to 200k people). This may not have been the first time someone did it at GDQ but it was one that personally stuck out to me. And that might have been the case to the hundreds of thousands of people watching.

These instances were few and far between, which means most people would be indifferent. Now it's 2017 and you have them running the post run panels and doing the speedruns themselves. I'd imagine the small events that happened in the past labeled GDQ as an LGBT friendly zone. And naturally what deranged charity wouldn't be LGBT friendly. That's like buying a gun with the donations you got and shooting one of the doctors their raising funds for (this is a bad joke pls no flame). So once people noticed that the doors were open and in fact, there was never a door to begin with, it gave a space for trans people to freely promote their place in the community. That explains why so many trans people
might
get absorbed into the GDQ community

As far as where the source of so many gaming trans people came from I couldn't possibly say. Some folks here are saying mental illness and things like ADHD/ADD and those are actually reasonable perspectives to have. Gender confusion is rampant among people with ADHD/ADD in particular because they will often disregard the gender restrictions that society inevitably attempts to enforce on them. But I'd wager the circumstance is far more complicated than anyone can explain.

I just graduated with psych and soci degrees after 4 years and there is very little that I can't make sense out of when it comes to people. But it's honestly really baffling, and much like you said there isn't anything wrong with it but the curious mind
will
ask questions. I've learned a lot in how to make sense of social situations like this but I seriously cannot figure out why so many trans people gravitate towards speedrunning in the gaming communities.

Starcraft's scarlett is a fantastic esports player and made a huge name for herself, but we don't see any other trans individuals make it into the pro scene. Same with Remilia when renegades was in the LCS. I'd say most gaming communities whether it be something casual or hardcore are entirely open to LGBTQ, but the actual volume of members of the LGBTQ community are generally sparce except now in GDQ.

None of what I'm saying are definite answers and even if they are they only leave more questions. Is it because this event is a charity whereas others are not (Do charities have an effect on the membership of communities? Do charities inherently make communities more liberal and thus more accepting of LGBTQ communities?) Is it by random chance? Do other places need more earlier instances of openness to LGBQ memebers in order to get higher volumes of them (would league of legends need more LGBTQ members in order to get a spike increase in the amount there)?

Or is the situation far more sinister? Are many of these "trans" individuals 'faking it'? If so, why would they? And in particular your note of it being "half assed" is a valid concern/perspective. If people like this cyberdemon appear half assed to many observers, what then defines a true trans individual? Do they need to adhere to the specifics aspects of femininity in order to be female or can they simply claim to feel like a woman and then continue to look like a man?

I'd like to reinforce that at the end of the day I'm not really trying to offer an answer here or say that I have one, but rather to point out how many different ways this branches off and how many social/psychological effects are coming into play at once.

I'm obviously just rambling and free thinking this without much editing going into the final comment submission but I think it's really cool how deep you can go with the current atmosphere of GDQ. It's also just fun for me to write this out and think about it even if not many people read or people just think I'm talking out of my ass, which with all due respect I pretty much am but that's besides the point.

However the only way to really legitimize anything I've said though is if I were to go down to an event myself and literally just host an experiment and try to pull in as many participants as I could. But unfortunately the reason I've deviated away from the fields of psychology and sociology and am now pursuing computer science is because ethics are fucking annoying and people are sensitive pricks.

TLDR/disclaimer: There isn't an answer, only a fucking ton of psychological and social questions about the possible effects of mental illnesses, social perspectives, ideas about what it means to be a gender and what defines a gender, and so much more. And I'm only scraping together the thinnest possible layer of discussion on these topics.

Majority of my teen years were spent playing with
those fandom people
in TF2 and generally being around them often. I honestly just think it's an increasing requirement for being deep or unique.

You grab a 90s kid in his 15-16s and ask him about a Chad from school, he'd probably go on a rant about how basic and depthless he is, as opposed to the emotional mature m'lady-man he is himself. Advance 10 years, Chad suddenly knows memes, follows LADbible and sways the women with his intellectual rage face comics. Our guy would have to advance further into the depth of the internet to stay safe miles away from the normie bubble.

Eventually it'd transcend sexuality. Chad is fiddling his bros and getting ladies all the same. "Yeah well I'm actually not even human on the inside". The internet grows larger and more diverse, these people start banding together to the point they seem far too common, and as such achieve 'average person' status without ever leaving the house. You see a neon haired weirdo now and then at Walmart, else it's all in the news. They're around all the time, just not physically.

Being trans is suddenly a new cool trend and it doesn't require anything but deciding to be a xe. Now, 10 years ago a neglected kid could get some funny feelings in his pants from a raging homosexual rainbow husky online, which is now replaced by the comfort of acceptance as long as you're willing to punch white cis males and call yourself Roxanne.

I honestly don't think they're "faking" anything. They want to be a part of something, and they have a skill that they can exploit. However, I do think those that get into a more public light tend to be, though not all the time, extremely vain people. The kind of people that want to be the spotlight, whether it makes others feel weird, or is entirely inappropriate for the situation. I wouldn't call them narcissists, as that would be used for a different class of people entirely, but I can't deny they come off as such. Now everything I said up until this point was about everybody, not just trans people.

Remember when being bisexual was cool 10 years ago? And then pansexual? Now you need to be a xe/xymself transsexual agender grey-neutral apache to get the same reaction.

It's a trend, all it is. Consider it a hardcore body modification trend that manages to shit massively onto any actual transsexuals.

I used to play with the most vanilla gay guys I've ever met 7-8 years ago. All but one is now a xe-something or other. These people would've eaten a girl out if a dude had just laid her, solely to get that faint scent of dick in their face. You can't convince me they suddenly changed their lives around for anything other than fake validation and bandwagon acceptance.

I've heard of this a few times and much as I wan't to dismiss it this ends up falling in line with the modern day mental illness that's associated with obsessing over obtaining the spotlight from the internet. It's clear people will try to do the
craziest/dumbest shit to get views.

Now just because I'm saying this doesn't mean I support it or immediately assume that this is more often the case than not. But it's not out of the question to to take a look at some of the individuals who might not be socially adept when it comes to interacting with society in general. This might just be their avenue to get attention, because at the end of the day we all crave it. We all want to be loved, to feel important, and for some people, to feel better than others. And it could be that 'going trans' is the easiest path for sheltered individuals to break out and be a part of society.

Personally I think using trans that way is scummy at best but again this is all just hypothetical speak. I'm not claiming anything and I would assume doubt first when making ill claims against people. If there was evidence of someone
saying that they were just faking it for attention (or something along those lines)
then we might have more ground to stand on but to assume this idea right from the get go is something I just can't do personally.

Real or fake account doesn't really matter to me because the core of my comment was taking a look at trans people in gaming communities.

If this is the real cyberdemon then I'd like to know where I explicitly say that I'm associating you with the GDQ community. I'm associating trans individuals with the GDQ community but nowhere do I say that you are associated with the community. I would imagine this misplaced perspective is because since you consider yourself trans then I guess by indirect association I am relating you to the GDQ community. But that's pretty far fetched. Being trans isn't a bridge you can put anywhere with the word trans on it. You are you, who also happens to be trans. By your that logic I'm then also saying every single trans person plays video games and every trans person who plays video games then must also be at GDQ (don't think there is enough space at the venue for that).

Basically, how it was explained to me through a green text post long ago went something like this:

Before Internet - If I was a kid who wanted to fuck a vacuum, I would get bullied and told that I was a dumbass then eventually grow out of it because it wasn't normal.

After Internet - If I was a kid who wanted to fuck a vacuum, I would go online to find vacuum porn. Then I would eventually find a community of people who also like fucking vacuums. Eventually I would grow up fucked up because I was accepted for fucking vacuums.

Historically people would just as easily make the exact same comparison with literally everything that was socially taboo.

Like, imagine some guy complaining how the era of the telephone and radio was causing naive young people to oppose segregation because they were exposed to different viewpoints and small communities couldn't teach their kids strong values.

Of course, in this scenario we see that guy as a misinformed bigot.

Then imagine someone talking about televisions being in every home and SJW shows normalising interracial marriage or even homosexuality. The horror!

I dunno. Historically, every single movement for acceptance that has reached as far as the current movement for trans acceptance has eventually won out, and those who opposed it either end up with egg on their faces and pretend that they never had an issue with it, or they become grumpy ol' grandparents that make their kids roll their eyes with their complaints about the modern era.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe being trans is simply a disease that in a decade or two will be recognised as such and people afflicted with it will take a pill and rejoin the gender binary. I wouldn't bet on that though.

If history has shown us anything, my money would be that in a decade or two, comparing transgender identity to vacuum fucking will be met with the same responses you'd get for doing the same with homosexuality today.

I think people are confused and think when people say "mental illness is rampant in Speedrunning" that people are being flippant or edgy. But it's not. It's an actual fact. The majority of speedrunners are "damaged" in some way. Gender dysphoria/transgenderism is just a subsect of this damaged community.

Autism is way overused these days but its actually literal for speedrunners. You have a segment of the population indoors majority of the time, having no face-to-face socialization, running the same game over and over for 1000's of hours, while hyper-focused on shaving off seconds in completing the game.

I just find it amusing that people are so inquisitive about the trans-speedrunning connection when its apparently obvious. Just wanted to clear it up. People aren't being edgy meme-lords when they say "because speed runnners are all fucked in the head. That's why there is a lot of transgender people". You may not like/accept that, but the people aren't trolling when they say it